GD is a graphics library. It allows your code to quickly draw images
complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colours, cut and paste from
other images, flood fills, and write out the result as a PNG file.
This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where PNG is
one of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers.

This is the full development version of the library, built without XPM
(X pixmap) or fontconfig support.

/usr/share/doc/libgd2-noxpm-dev/README.gz

***** gd 2.0.36 *****
**** A graphics library for fast image creation ****
**** Follow this link to the latest_version_of_this_document. ****
UPGRADING UNIX USERS: READ THIS FIRST! Modern versions of gd install
by default to /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include. If you already
have an older version of gd in /usr/lib and /usr/include, you may
wish to use:
./configure --pre
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